US Patent Issued to Lineage Logistics on Feb. 24 for "Planning and controlling automated layer pickers" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,909, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Lineage Logistics LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Planning and controlling automated layer pickers" was invented by Rene van Eekelen (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for determining and controlling automated layer pick operations. A computer system can receive, from a warehouse management system, a layer pick planning request for at least one order and determine an initial feasible solution for completing the request. The computer system can determine: initial batches of pallets based on grouping destination pallets that require layers of items from sa...